How to Securely Erase a Mac’s SSD or Hard Drive

MacTalk September 2022 How to Securely Erase a Mac’s SSD or Hard Drive Over on TidBITS Talk, user Lucas043 posed a question that prompted a fascinating discussion. Lucas043 has a Samsung Portable T7 SSD being used for backup. The SSD has intermittent access problems...

GraphicConverter 11 Rescues Ancient QuickTake 150 Photos

MacTalk September 2022 GraphicConverter 11 Rescues Ancient QuickTake 150 Photos Apple is now known for the cameras in the iPhone, but the first Apple camera was the QuickTake 100, released in 1994. It wasn’t the first digital camera, but Time magazine called it “the...

Continuity Camera Turns an iPhone Into a Mac Webcam

MacTalk September 2022 Continuity Camera Turns an iPhone Into a Mac Webcam As someone with relatives on multiple continents and a day job I will do entirely from home for the foreseeable future, I engage in a lot of video conferencing. It’s often an unsatisfying...

Claris’s Plans for FileMaker Bode Well for Individual Users

MacTalk September 2022 ADAM ENGST 23 August 20224 comments   Claris’s Plans for FileMaker Bode Well for Individual Users I’m not deep into the FileMaker development community, but some announcements from Apple subsidiary Claris a few months ago generated quite a...

Use ChronoSync to Move Large Folders

MacTalk August 2022 JOSH CENTERS 15 July 20228 comments Use ChronoSync to Move Large Folders Imagine that you want to move a multi-gigabyte folder containing tens of thousands of files and subfolders to another drive to free up your Mac’s internal storage space. Your...